Tom Petty Quotes

There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

There's a freeway running through the yard.

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.

I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.

At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.

I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.

I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.

Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again

Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

I got my own way of praying.

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

I would never put my songs in a commercial.

I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.

We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

That's stupid. You couldn't pay me to go. I'm not oversimplifying it. That's what's going on. I don't think it would be any fun without the drugs. It's a drug party.

The waiting is the hardest part.

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

I'll stand my ground and I won't back down.

I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.